Fake News! NYT Journalist Touts Bogus Michael Flynn Twitter Account

Scott Whitlock | February 14, 2017
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[See NewsBusters for more.] In another round of fake news, the New York Times on Tuesday quoted from a bogus Twitter account purporting to be from Mike Flynn, the general who resigned on Monday night as National Security Adviser. The Times used a quote from “@GenMikeFlynn” asserting, “But if a scapegoat is what's needed for this Administration to continue to take this great nation forward, I am proud to do my duty.” This is a fake quote from a fake Twitter account. Appearing on CBS This Morning, Times journalist David Sanger pushed the tweet: “And he said himself in a Tweet this morning, that while he was responsible, there are others who are responsible, too.”

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